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The Great Acting Blog: “Make Some Noise About Actors You Admire”

30.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

It seems some performances are praised to the rafters by the mainstream press, when often I think the acting in question is false and self-conscious. Other performances however, are a model of truth and simplicity and generosity, and yet are almost universally ignored. It...

The Generosity Of Roberto Benigni

08.09.2013 , Noirish Project , 2 Comments

“It is a sad and beautiful world” – Roberto Benigni in Down By Law To celebrate the completion of my feature film, Noirish Project, I held a screening of Jim Jarmusch’s Down By Law. It was an important film for me when I was in my teens...

The Great Acting Blog: “The Generosity Of Roberto Benigni”

"It is a sad and beautiful world" - Roberto Benigni in Down By Law To celebrate the completion of my feature film, Noirish Project, I held a screening of Jim Jarmusch's Down By Law. It was an important film for me when I was in my...

The Great Acting Blog: “Jack Nicholson’s Retirement”

05.09.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 29 Comments

"When I watch my own work, I'm always watching him, I'm never watching me. That separation is a part of the trade as well". - Jack Nicholson When Jack Nicholson announced he was retiring from acting, I was completely bowled over. The strength of my response...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Can Great Acting Win?”

30.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

One of the major problems is that many theatres and many filmmakers are not looking to acting in order to make their name. That is, they are not concerned with being known as having great acting in their productions. Decent, competent acting will do for...

The Great Acting Blog: “How Critics Misunderstand Acting”

17.08.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 41 Comments

Criticism of acting is a major problem. In my experience, critics have absolutely no clue about the aesthetics of acting. They have no proper way of assessing an actor's performance. Consequently, they latch on to anything the actor did in preparation or anything obvious in...

The Great Acting Blog: “Do We Need Great Acting Anymore?”

28.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 1 Comment

A strict form ( i.e. - precise script, blocking, actions) tests the actors skill and dedication. To fit himself into that form successfully, the actor needs to have superb technique. If everything is loose and open, then the performance will only be crafted to the...

The Great Acting Blog: “Remarkable, Wonderful, Complex – Geraldine Chaplin In Alan Rudolph’s Remember My Name”

02.06.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 2 Comments

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6mamLdYraU Geraldine Chaplin plays Emily, who is released from prison after 12 years, and starts a new life working the check-out at a supermarket. Soon however, she begins to stalk a construction worker (Anthony Perkins), and we gradually learn that she was married to him before she...

The Great Actin Blog: “Fear Of Failure”

20.02.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 0 Comments

Commitment is a tricky thing. At the moment just before we need to commit, our minds suggest all kinds of alternatives as preferable to the thing we are about to commit to. One of the reasons commitment is so hard, is because we are putting...

The Great Acting Blog: “Robert De Niro Notes”

02.01.2013 , The Great Acting Blog , 10 Comments

De Niro offers practical advice here, which means alot coming from an actor of his stature, and especially him I suppose, because so much theoretical voodoo has grown up around his work, in order to explain away his performances - the truth is, ac...

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